Returns ending Aug. 15, 1801. [ INLAND COUNTIES. COUNTIES. S. Effex 47 635 44 Kent s. d. s. d. d. s. d S. d. 931 340 3 632 045 3 945 034 9 4 680 053 O Suffolk ΠΙΣ Northam.120 Huntin. 107 1100 0150 0125 4) 067 0129 6100 0.72 33 Lincoln 109 0100 037 6'55 Stafford 37 9100 0.77 439 Silop 121 787 6:00 040 6'00 Hereford 130 181 167 000 037 371 c71 332 York 123 235 464 230 1153 6 659 640 841 Durham 126 O Northum125 1172 058 Cumberl. 143 484 471 Westmo. 139 5105 683 022 328 000 238 800 747 400 044 1100 39 9,00 500 Worce. 134 6197 Chester 10} Warwick 125 1100 Wilts ΠΟ 4/00 0163 Denbigh 131 400 Berks [12 (100 249 932 Oxford 122 062 2/00 Bucks 114 800 057 637 052 Carnarv 120 0:00 38 3'00 Brecon 153 9112 096 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. 124 9176 465 10135 1156 Average of Scotland, per quarter, 00 ofco 0100 000 000 0 Devon 146 100 075 1132 1000 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Cardigan 125 500 034 67 436 400 0100 000 000 000 0100 Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans | Districts S. d. 442 427 3 9 133 2 109 353 033 529 939 037 C50 3/23 137 576 492 3146 128 076 455 136 476 11/29 232 126 365 953 1039 10 141 889 774 119 000 130 976 465 1039 Fine Seconds 656 I 14 000 0100 000 0100 000 0100 0100 0.00 0100 oos. to oos. Horfe Pollard 21s. od. to of OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, 745. Id. Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the returns made in the week ending Aug. 19, 1801, is 465. 114 per cwt. exclusive of the duty of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great-Britain. Bank 3 per Ct 3 per Ct. 4 per Ct 5 perCt5 perCt Long Short Stock. B India Ann. Ann. Stock. Bonds 015 00 00 00 1694 Printed by NICHOLS and SON, Red-Lion-Paffage, Fleet-Street, London J. BRANSCOMB, Stock-Broker, at the Lucky Lottery Office, No. 11 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ O ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ 18 015 METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for September, 1801. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 71 64 29,96 fair ,84 fair 13 57 63 29 64 75 68 78 fair 14 58 62 59 ,97 Showery 57 30,18 fair ,56 rain 56 67 69 59 ,24 fair 72 fair 64 29,81 cloudy ,52 air, rain at ,65 showery 19 56 68 55 75 fair [uight 4 58 ,51 Showery 2 59 64 56 ,74 showery 64 68 60 942 thowery 72 fair ,32 fhowery 22 53 54 53 72 rain 48 60 30,02 cloudy 24 49 60 54 ,77 cloudy ,90 fair 55 ,12 fair 62 69 10 57 66 57 58651 56 I Mr URBAN, 901 cloudy 26 56 62 58 93 fair ,78 cloudy W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk Street, Strand. Liverpool, Sept. 17. HEREWITH fend you an account of the increafe and evaporation of water, fhewn by my glafs-vellels, for the month of Auguft (which veffels are 31 yards from the ground). If it meets your approbation I fhall continue it; and alfo give you an account of the wind and weather in this town. G. J. AUGUST.-Increase, 1 inch 3-12ths. Evaporation, 2 inches 5-12ths. SEPTEMBER.-Increase, 3 inches 6-12ths. Evaporation, 1 inch 2-12ths. Wind Weather in SEPTEMBER, 1801. WNW windy, fair A.M. PM. W W NW ENE NE ENEEE WH 10 fair 11 E by S fair E 14 SE fair BILL of MORTALITY, from Aug. 25, to ́ Sept. 22, 1801. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For Mr. URBAN, F SEPTEMBER, Sept. 12. IDELIS has fucceeded in his obliging endeavour (p. 601,) to gratify me on the fubject of Bees, and I request him to accept my thanks. I perfectly concur with him in every thing he fays relating to them, as I do alfo with his vifitors in pronouncing his bee-houfe a very wellcontrived one; yet, I think, a covering of neat thatch would keep his bees warmer and drier than one of board or tile. "An Old Reader" (p. 39) of Mr. Urban's Magazine withes to be informed of the dimentions of Fidelis's beehouse; but, if this enquirer is about forming one for himself, he may like to be apprized that the makers of bee-hives are lately got into a way of making them fmaller than they used to do, and of a new form. The hives were formerly shaped like a bell or a cupola, but now they make the circular wall of them perfectly erect to a certain height, and then form the roof flanting towards an obtufe point in the middle. Whether this thape has any advantage over the former, I have not had experience to know; but I can predict that the new method of compacting the ftraw wifps that form the hives together with ftraws can never prove fo durable as when it was done with fplit bramble-stalks, and, befides, this practice takes up a greater quantity of fraw, which is now very dear, whilft bramble-ftems coft nothing. However, any bee-mafter, who has a poor neighbour ingenious and induftrious enough to do them may, have his hives made to his own liking, and get the thanks of his workman into the bargain for em 1801. ploying him In the garden of an inn at Ringwood in New Foreft ftands a very folid brick-wall that appears to have been built prior to the year 1700, but still remaining in found condition. In the main brick-work of this wall are two rows (one above the other in the higher part of the wall) of arched cavities, evidently defigned for containing be-hives, and at present ufed for that purpofe. The faces of these arched recettes are neatly finithed with bricks adapted to the purpofe like the arches under small brick-bridges, and the floping manner in which the capping of the wall is finished (in the common ftyle of the century before laft) flings off the rain from the arches. The number of these hive-receptacles is eight, and they are (fo thick is the wall) rather more than deep enough to admit the hives, which are of the old form and fize. I. think though, whether bces are houfed in the body of a wall as I have defcribed, or in a lean-to affixed to a wall as Fidelis bas de fcribed, that no fruit-trees thould be planted near them, becaufe the fruit attracts the waips towards the bees. I hope Fidelis will fulfil his promife in giving us an account of the manner in which he has obferved the tom-tit to prey on bees, as it is difficult to imagine how a bird with fo fmall and weak a bill can accomplith its intent. The Indian bee-eater delineated by Edwards, and the European bee-eater (Merops) reprefented by Albin, hive very long and ftrong bills, and the latter is a largith bird. I alfo with Fide is to affift me in conje&turing how the wild honeybees escape being killed by cold and hunger in fharp winters; for I have known them to exist many |